September 15, 2017

China's Investment Landscape: Finding New Opportunities

A China Briefingreport of September 2017 from Dezan Shira & Associates, a China business consultancy, highlights China's official Catalogue of Industries for Guiding Foreign Investment and the Free Trade Zone Negative Listwhich reduces restrictions for foreign investments in China.

According to the Catalogue, newly encouraged industriesinclude manufacture of intelligent emergency medical rescue devices; R & D and manufacture of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices; establishment and operation of city parking facilities; development and manufacture of 3D printing devices; construction of hydrogen refueling stations; and manufacture of hydrographic monitoring sensors. Restrictions have been removed on a host of other industries and services including rail transport equipment, automotive electronics, new energy batteries, electric vehicles, bio fuels, motor cycles, satellites, edible agricultural products including oils and seeds, and marine engineering.